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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMSNBC is running the Rachel Maddow hosted McVeigh Tapes now 7pm EST
It's very interesting and well done computer graphics is used to recreate McVeigh's face.
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MSNBC is running the Rachel Maddow hosted McVeigh Tapes now 7pm EST (Original Post)
flamingdem
Apr 2013
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malaise
(267,835 posts)1. Watching
I'll never forget that day
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)3. This documentary is fascinating
and it spawned a score of attacks and entire patriot teaparty type films in response.
malaise
(267,835 posts)6. It really is good
Second time I'm watching
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)5. When we see his real face in contrast to the digital face it's a shock
His expression still reaches across time, imo.
dmr
(28,321 posts)2. Thanks
flamingdem
(39,304 posts)4. Review from the New York Times
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/04/19/arts/television/19mcveigh.html?_r=0
The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist, which will be shown on Monday, the 15th anniversary of the bombing, comes at a time when right-wing militia groups are on the rise, or at least more audible, and heightened anti-government talk is heating up anti-anti-government fervor. McVeighs descent into violence is presented as much as a cautionary tale as a commemoration.
Nine years after his execution we are left worrying that Timothy McVeighs voice from the grave echoes in a new rising tide of American anti-government extremism, is how the MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, who narrates the film, puts it in her introduction.
But strangely, this film, which claims to be the first ever to present McVeigh in his own words, blunts its impact by relying on stagy computer graphics, and even an actor whose looks are digitally altered, to re-enact McVeighs movements. Scenes of this domestic terrorist in shackles during a prison interview or lighting a fuse inside a rented Ryder truck look neither real nor completely fake, but certainly cheesy: a violent video game with McVeigh as a methodical, murderous avatar.
Documentaries increasingly use technology, often to good effect. The History channel, which used to rely heavily on quaint, period-costume re-enactments (a shot of a quill pen writing on parchment, a tableau of soldiers firing muskets at close range), is expanding its virtual reach. America: The Story of Us, a six-part series about the United States that begins on Sunday, is visually thrilling but in a sensible, instructive way: computer wizardry, for example, peels a map of Manhattan today back to what the terrain looked like more than 200 years ago when the towers and strip mall of Kips Bay were meadows stormed by the British in 1776.
The McVeigh Tapes: Confessions of an American Terrorist, which will be shown on Monday, the 15th anniversary of the bombing, comes at a time when right-wing militia groups are on the rise, or at least more audible, and heightened anti-government talk is heating up anti-anti-government fervor. McVeighs descent into violence is presented as much as a cautionary tale as a commemoration.
Nine years after his execution we are left worrying that Timothy McVeighs voice from the grave echoes in a new rising tide of American anti-government extremism, is how the MSNBC commentator Rachel Maddow, who narrates the film, puts it in her introduction.
But strangely, this film, which claims to be the first ever to present McVeigh in his own words, blunts its impact by relying on stagy computer graphics, and even an actor whose looks are digitally altered, to re-enact McVeighs movements. Scenes of this domestic terrorist in shackles during a prison interview or lighting a fuse inside a rented Ryder truck look neither real nor completely fake, but certainly cheesy: a violent video game with McVeigh as a methodical, murderous avatar.
Documentaries increasingly use technology, often to good effect. The History channel, which used to rely heavily on quaint, period-costume re-enactments (a shot of a quill pen writing on parchment, a tableau of soldiers firing muskets at close range), is expanding its virtual reach. America: The Story of Us, a six-part series about the United States that begins on Sunday, is visually thrilling but in a sensible, instructive way: computer wizardry, for example, peels a map of Manhattan today back to what the terrain looked like more than 200 years ago when the towers and strip mall of Kips Bay were meadows stormed by the British in 1776.